Developing an index of dose of exposure to early childhood obesity community interventions.

ABSTRACT: The recognition of the role of the environment in contributing to the obesity epidemic has led to increasing efforts to address obesity through environmental or place-based approaches in the past decade. This has challenged the use of the quasi-experimental design for evaluating community interventions. The objective of this study is to describe the development of an index of dose of exposure to community interventions that impact early childhood obesity. The goal is to provide an alternative means for evaluating the impact of multiple intervention strategies that target the same community at the same time. Two workgroups developed domains, constructs and protocols for estimating a "community intervention dose index" (CIDI). Information used to develop the protocol came from multiple sourc

SUBMITTER: Wang MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5930075 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature